The revolving door describes one route through the system. There is another. Between 2013 and 2023, 68 of the 284 peers nominated by party leaders were political donors, giving a combined £58 million. Fifteen of sixteen [more…]
Another import from the Sylhet District of Bangladesh. We’ve already had an article on Tulip Siddiq and an honourable mention for Baroness Uddin in the expenses scandal, now we turn our attention to Rushanara Ali. [more…]
In each of the 438 quangos described in Part 2, someone decides who sits on the boards, who chairs the committees, and who approves the contracts. Look closely at who those people are and a [more…]
If the PM and his Deputy are on the make then we can expect an epidemic of fiddling among their minions. Angela Rayner has been the MP for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015. Having left school at [more…]
Andrew John Gwynne is the MP for Gorton and Denton. He was suspended in 2025 because of offensive messages he had written on WhatsApp, In 1996 he was elected to Tameside Council and has done [more…]
Almost a third of all government spending, £391 billion a year, is not spent by government departments. It is spent by 438 separate publicly funded bodies that ministers cannot direct, Parliament cannot easily scrutinise, and voters [more…]
We are still in 2024 and this story caused quite a commotion when it broke. Who among us has ever turned down a gift. Aside from Xmas and birthdays I don’t remember ever getting a [more…]
There have been instances of MPs getting a bit punchy after over indulging in the in-house bars in the House of Shame. This has largely been fisticuffs between MPs themselves. However, in what may be [more…]
When a bank flags a transaction as suspicious, it is not usually because someone has confessed to a crime. It is because the numbers do not make sense. A property sells for three times its [more…]
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